{"id":78830,"date":"2018-04-12T08:51:48","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T12:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=78830"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:45:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:45:48","slug":"john-martinka-phony-seal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=78830","title":{"rendered":"John Martinka; phony SEAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=78831\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-78831\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/John-Paul-Martinka-300x269.jpg?resize=300%2C269\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"269\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-78831\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/John-Paul-Martinka.jpg?resize=300%2C269&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/John-Paul-Martinka.jpg?resize=372%2C333&amp;ssl=1 372w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/John-Paul-Martinka.jpg?w=442&amp;ssl=1 442w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Our partners at <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryphony.com\/2018\/04\/12\/john-paul-martinka-iii-fake-seal-and-or-frogman\/\">Military Phonies<\/a> send us their work on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/john.martinka.9\">John Paul Martinka III<\/a> who claims to be a former Navy SEAL, that he was injured during Hell Week, so he was recycled three times;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=78832\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-78832\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/John-Martinka-1-169x300.jpg?resize=169%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-78832\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/John-Martinka-1.jpg?resize=169%2C300&amp;ssl=1 169w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/John-Martinka-1.jpg?resize=187%2C333&amp;ssl=1 187w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/John-Martinka-1.jpg?w=540&amp;ssl=1 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=78833\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-78833\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/John-Martinka-2-169x300.jpg?resize=169%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-78833\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/John-Martinka-2.jpg?resize=169%2C300&amp;ssl=1 169w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/John-Martinka-2.jpg?resize=187%2C333&amp;ssl=1 187w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/John-Martinka-2.jpg?w=540&amp;ssl=1 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=78834\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-78834\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/John-Martinka-3-146x300.jpg?resize=146%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"146\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-78834\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/John-Martinka-3.jpg?resize=146%2C300&amp;ssl=1 146w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/John-Martinka-3.jpg?resize=162%2C333&amp;ssl=1 162w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/John-Martinka-3.jpg?w=466&amp;ssl=1 466w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 146px) 100vw, 146px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=78835\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-78835\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/John-Martinka-4-146x300.jpg?resize=146%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"146\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-78835\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/John-Martinka-4.jpg?resize=146%2C300&amp;ssl=1 146w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/John-Martinka-4.jpg?resize=162%2C333&amp;ssl=1 162w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/John-Martinka-4.jpg?w=466&amp;ssl=1 466w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 146px) 100vw, 146px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=78836\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-78836\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/John-Martinka-5-219x300.jpg?resize=219%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-78836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/John-Martinka-5.jpg?resize=219%2C300&amp;ssl=1 219w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/John-Martinka-5.jpg?resize=243%2C333&amp;ssl=1 243w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/John-Martinka-5.jpg?w=538&amp;ssl=1 538w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=78837\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-78837\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/John-Martinka-6-169x300.jpg?resize=169%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-78837\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/John-Martinka-6.jpg?resize=169%2C300&amp;ssl=1 169w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/John-Martinka-6.jpg?resize=187%2C333&amp;ssl=1 187w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/John-Martinka-6.jpg?w=540&amp;ssl=1 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=78838\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-78838\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/John-Martinka-7-169x300.jpg?resize=169%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-78838\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/John-Martinka-7.jpg?resize=169%2C300&amp;ssl=1 169w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/John-Martinka-7.jpg?resize=187%2C333&amp;ssl=1 187w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/John-Martinka-7.jpg?w=540&amp;ssl=1 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=78839\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-78839\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/John-Martinka-8-169x300.jpg?resize=169%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-78839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/John-Martinka-8.jpg?resize=169%2C300&amp;ssl=1 169w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/John-Martinka-8.jpg?resize=187%2C333&amp;ssl=1 187w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/John-Martinka-8.jpg?w=540&amp;ssl=1 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After contacting the UDT\/SEAL archives, the Naval Special Warfare Center and checking the UDT\/SEAL database we found that John Paul Martinka III did attend  BUD\/S Training but he never completed training and he was never assigned to a SEAL Team.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=78840\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-78840\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/John-Paul-Martinka-FOIA-AA-232x300.jpg?resize=232%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-78840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/John-Paul-Martinka-FOIA-AA.jpg?resize=232%2C300&amp;ssl=1 232w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/John-Paul-Martinka-FOIA-AA.jpg?resize=257%2C333&amp;ssl=1 257w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/John-Paul-Martinka-FOIA-AA.jpg?w=742&amp;ssl=1 742w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In John\u2019s DD-214 it shows he was active duty for approximately 7 years, 2 months and 3 days and got out of the Navy as an OS2 (E-5).  John\u2019s NEC, rate and DD-214 clearly shows that he was not a SEAL.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our partners at Military Phonies send us their work on John Paul Martinka III who claims to be a former Navy SEAL, that he was injured during Hell Week, so he was recycled three times; After contacting the UDT\/SEAL archives, the Naval Special Warfare Center and checking the UDT\/SEAL database we found that John Paul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phony-soldiers","category-valorvultures"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/John-Paul-Martinka.jpg?fit=442%2C396&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-kvs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}